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February 11, 2013

Germany: Day 6 - Apartment Living....

It's a whole new way to do life! For those of you who personally know my children you know I am raising healthy, active, sometimes boisterous children....learning to live in an apartment three floors up has been taking a bit of reminding and training to get them to realize that when we "just off a chair" we are in fact "jumping on someone's head"!!! Helping them to understand that when we speak above a "library voice" others around us can also hear us quite well. It's been fun to see them try to be calm and quiet and I am VERY THANKFUL they have been sleeping until nine am most mornings...just for the sake of those around us! LOL

Well today Coleton was getting down from reaching something high and not wanting him to JUMP I said "WAIT! Remember, when we jump on our floor we are jumping on someone elses head!" He gently stepped down with a ginger step trying ever so hard to keep it light and quiet. Elliott piped in from the other room "The people above us don't know that! That's for sure!" HAHAHAHA I laughed and asked "Why did you hear them last night?" (semi fearful of the answer that may be forthcoming....) "Yep!" he relied "They were stomp, stomp, stomping and then I heard wheeeeeeeeeee, and I had no idea what that was." "Maybe it was a vacuum cleaner going?" I replied.... "yeah, maybe it was" he said. I was thankful the sounds of the night were nothing more than stomping and a vacuum cleaner....

And I too can attest to thin walls...the fellow below us gets ready for his day at 3:45 am....he walks in and out in and out of his bedroom, opens his closet ALOT, watches TV FAR TOO LOUD for 3:45 am and then by just about five, all's silent again....fun... Apartment living...it is what it is! I may be back later if we get to get out and about today....see you soon!

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Germany: Day 6 - Apartment Living....

It's a whole new way to do life! For those of you who personally know my children you know I am raising healthy, active, sometimes boisterous children....learning to live in an apartment three floors up has been taking a bit of reminding and training to get them to realize that when we "just off a chair" we are in fact "jumping on someone's head"!!! Helping them to understand that when we speak above a "library voice" others around us can also hear us quite well. It's been fun to see them try to be calm and quiet and I am VERY THANKFUL they have been sleeping until nine am most mornings...just for the sake of those around us! LOL

Well today Coleton was getting down from reaching something high and not wanting him to JUMP I said "WAIT! Remember, when we jump on our floor we are jumping on someone elses head!" He gently stepped down with a ginger step trying ever so hard to keep it light and quiet. Elliott piped in from the other room "The people above us don't know that! That's for sure!" HAHAHAHA I laughed and asked "Why did you hear them last night?" (semi fearful of the answer that may be forthcoming....) "Yep!" he relied "They were stomp, stomp, stomping and then I heard wheeeeeeeeeee, and I had no idea what that was." "Maybe it was a vacuum cleaner going?" I replied.... "yeah, maybe it was" he said. I was thankful the sounds of the night were nothing more than stomping and a vacuum cleaner....

And I too can attest to thin walls...the fellow below us gets ready for his day at 3:45 am....he walks in and out in and out of his bedroom, opens his closet ALOT, watches TV FAR TOO LOUD for 3:45 am and then by just about five, all's silent again....fun... Apartment living...it is what it is! I may be back later if we get to get out and about today....see you soon!